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“I am not going to say it is worse. Any injury is bad. But it is not straightforward.

“I have got all the scars and if you keep on going into that area, the more of a mess it becomes.

“I was going into operations with no certainty it would work.

“Nobody can ever tell you 100 percent, I realise that, but people were telling me that ‘this works on 70 percent of people and we think it could help you’. It was never 95 percent.”

There was a time early in 2017 though, when he was given a brief glimmer of hope.

“I had two months of full-on training at Forest and started to improve,” he recalled. “But then I started having some issues with the other Achilles too, based on the fact that I was overloading and taking the pressure off the bad one.”

Matty Fryatt had been training with Burton

Fryatt was released by Forest in the summer of 2017 at the end of his contract, and had trials with Burton Albion and Walsall before making the decision to hang up his boots in February.

“I was taking pills just to get through it,” he said. “I was nearly there but not quite there and I could not do it for an extended period of time. So if I did one session I would be in agony from it.

“I could get through a session but then you would have to recover and go again.

“Every time I stepped out on to the pitch it was a challenge just to get through it. I would do half an hour and be in real pain, but feeling like I had to keep going. It was just too much to be doing it constantly.

“As much as someone watching me might say, ‘you don’t look too bad’, I would be dealing with the pain and trying to do it the next day and the next day.”

He added: “The speed had gone. There are still movements where I think I could lose my marker but it would be for like 10 seconds.

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“Obviously, you have to do it for 90 minutes and I was competing against guys who were doing full sessions. Ultimately, I couldn’t do it.”

Fryatt initially tried his hand at scouting with another of his former clubs, Leicester City, but explained: “It’s a lonely role and at 32 I didn’t feel it was the way forward. I’d prefer to be working with kids and giving something back.”